sluggish performance Jaunty

[H.S.]

Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> 
> The command > df -h does not work.  When I open home folder it says I have 6

This is odd. I have never had to install anything special to use the df
command (there is ">" with the command). The reason I asked is that if a
partition being in Ubuntu is more than 95% full, the system will feel
sluggish and slow down.


> gigs free space.  I do not have any special effects enabled.  Under
> "Appearances," I checked 'normal.'

Okay. Special effects might be too much for this system.

> 
> I realize these days 375 megs of ram is not a lot.  I'd rather go back to
> hardy than spend money on a machine that's over 5 yrs old.

When you system is running, what is the output of this command:
$> free -m

It will show the memory (RAM) usage in your system.


> 
> Otherwise jaunty seems to work well, except with skype; I'd switch to
> another if I could.  Skype sometimes grabs 70% of the CPU when FF is
> running, then won't shut down.

I saw another post here, I think you need the statically compiled skype
(oss) from medibuntu repos to get around this problem.

Regards.



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